To Demonstrate That an Increase in Advertising Causes a Sales

question 5

Multiple Choice

To demonstrate that an increase in advertising causes a sales increase,one must be able to show that the increase in advertising occurred before the increase in sales.Which of the preconditions for causation is being illustrated?

• A)correlation
• B)appropriate time order of occurrence
• C)elimination of all possible causal factors
• D)elimination the effects of the independent variable
• E)none of the above

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